Tag Archives: global food crisis

Each month, GMO Answers compiles a few of our favorite news stories into one post on the GMO Answers website. This post covers a wide variety of topics related to agriculture and biotechnology. This month’s installment is Halloween-themed, and starts off by correcting some of the most common myths about GMOs, and then addresses some specific issues about the sugar found in your candy. The post then finishes up discussing the issue of “Frankenfoods,” along Read More >

Soybeans have gone through a biotechnological revolution. Through intensive studies and research programs, scientists have pioneered new ways for the soybean to enhance our food production systems. Dr. Thomas Clemente, Eugene W. Price Distinguished Professor in Biotechnology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has written a guest post at the GMO Answers Forbes.com site highlighting the many benefits of soy. One of the new applications for soybeans is in fish food in aquaculture. Clemente writes: Fish Read More >

Our world is facing challenges that can only be met by increasing the pace of innovation. That means we need to farm smarter – using all available technologies in ways that will enable us to value crop productivity and biodiversity equally. Dr. Robert Fraley has written a new column at the GMO Answers Forbes.com site, “GMOs Will Only Grow in Impact.” He wonders why GMOs and other advanced biotech tools are expected to have an Read More >

Each month, GMO Answers compiles a few of our favorite news stories into one post on the GMO Answers website. This post covers a wide variety of topics related to agriculture and biotechnology. This month’s installment starts off with a story about eggplant in Bangladesh that shows the true potential of GMO technology, and finishes up with a story that looks back at the 50 years following the Green Revolution and the global food challenges Read More >

Long before humans started domesticating crops 10,000 years ago, nature had its own process of transferring genes from one species to another, in effect, creating GMOs. As a part of GMO Answers’ “Get To Know GMOs” campaign, plant biotechnology pioneer Dr. Mary-Dell Chilton has written a new post at the GMO Answers Forbes.com page highlighting the history and benefits of genetically modified organisms: One of the biggest misconceptions about genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, is Read More >